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Los Angeles has defied the porn industry's threat to quit the city and passed a law requiring porn actors to wear condoms during filming. The City Council voted 9-1 for final approval of the ordinance, which is set to go into effect in 90 days, the Los Angeles Times reports. A film permit fee will fund surprise inspections on porn shoots. California occupational health authorities already require porn actors to wear condoms, but that rule is almost never enforced, Reuters notes.

"Clearly, this is about the government overreaching and intruding into consenting adults’ decisions,” complained the chief of a porn industry trade group. “They are taking something they know nothing about and imposing their morality on our industry." The head of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which spent years fighting for the condom law, says he doesn't believe the porn industry will leave town. "They’d hardly be welcomed in West Virginia or Utah or Mississippi, or even a place like Nevada, where legal prostitution is highly regulated and condoms are required," he says. "And we will follow them wherever they go."

It's just like the lunch ladies who have to wear those flimsy vinyl gloves when they pass out the rolls.

anothernewsjunkie

Jan 18, 2012 5:33 AM CST

freedom of speech violation, anyone?

BradCS

Jan 18, 2012 3:24 AM CST

Adults can make decisions for themselves. Regulation of the penis and vagina, can the government become anymore repugnant in their violations of the constitution. Stay the hell away from my body and don't tell me what to do with it. Just because someone films the sex does not give the government the right to tell you what to do with your body. not at all, not one bit If they want to say it's because they get paid that gives them the right to regulate, then i say do the porn for free and pay the actors for drawing a picture, and say you paid for art. it can be a stick figure, it's a loop hole use it.